Seeking escape and adventure, two friends find their travels stumped by a lack of funds and prospects. To pay off their foreign exchange fees, the two join a ‘work-to-travel’ program which lands them in a remote Australian community. At first, they take it as a chance to discover a new part of the country and…
What happens if you take the Broadway musical–what has often been considered America’s most wholesome and charming form of theatre–but it was raunchy and proudly queer? That’s what Dicks: The Musical tries to answer in its short but song-filled comedy. The film follows Craig and Trevor (Aaron Jackson and Joshua Sharp, who also wrote the…
Change is almost always scary for me. I don’t like my routine being interrupted, and Iespecially find it difficult to accept that if I want to ‘make something of myself’ or even justsurvive, I have to be willing to try new, often risky things. In A Road to A Village, director Nabin Subba, looks at…
Spring Break in Malia! That’s what the main characters of How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, have on their mind. Under the colored strobe lights, the brisk beachside sun and a little emotional coercion, the group are set them with a poolside room that should make for the perfect vacation. Escaping the…
Directed by Um Tae-hwa, Concrete Utopia tells the story of the residents of the Hwang Gung apartment complex as they navigate survival after an earthquake destroys all the other buildings and leaves theirs standing. Soon, they are also approached for shelter by people in the city who have lost their homes. The residents appoint Yeon-tak…
To say Miyazaki has a new classic seems insane to say, especially given his career full of classics that will go down as some of the most influential and important works in film. Nevertheless, The Boy and the Heron is so creative that one can only compare it to other great works such as The…
Written and directed by Carolina Markowicz, TOLL tells the story of Suellen, a toll booth attendant, who is struggling with her teenage son’s sexuality. When she hears of a local gay conversion workshop, she believes that it’s the best way to have him ‘fixed’ yet cannot afford the cost. However, when she realizes that her…
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, tells the story of Cheryl Bradshaw (also played by Kendrick). Bradshaw is a struggling actress who appears on as a bachelorette on The Dating Game, a TV game show where bachelors compete for an all-expense paid trip with said bachelorette. The day she appears, serial killer and…
There came a point in my life when I started to question why racial violence was happening. Every time I heard of a shooting; I would wonder, “what would drive a person to this point? Why is it so easy for other people looking in to justify the death of a person? And why does…
The Umbrella Men: Escape from Robben Island dives right into the action almost immediately after the events of the first film. After saving the Goema Club, Jerome, Keisha, Morty, Mila and Auntie Val have settled into the sweet life of success. However, Tariq has not forgotten their duplicity and vows revenge. Soon after, the men find…
